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“counterinsurgency”
Revisiting Revisionism: Vietnam, Counterinsurgency, and the Lessons of Edward Lansdale
Mark Atwood Lawrence
Hope and Hype: Advising Foreign Forces in the Middle of a Counterinsurgency Campaign
Will Selber
Elephants in Afghanistan: The Military’s Counterinsurgency Failure
Jason Dempsey
The Case for Revising India’s Counterinsurgency Strategy in Kashmir
Ayesha Ray
The U.A.E. Approach to Counterinsurgency in Yemen
Michael Knights
Death Solves All Problems: The Authoritarian Counterinsurgency Toolkit
Daniel Byman
Regimes and Revolt: Authoritarian Ways of Counterinsurgency
David H. Ucko
Myth-Busting French Counterinsurgency
Terrence Peterson
The Bush Wars: Ellis on Intel, Governance, and Ethics in Counterinsurgency
Brett Friedman
The Bush Wars: Ellis on Population-Centric Counterinsurgency
Brett Friedman
Nepal’s Dirty Little War: Counterinsurgency and the Fall of a Hindu King
Michael Vurens van Es
Back to Night Raids: Counterinsurgency or Counterbureaucracy?
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
The Counterinsurgency Paradigm Shift
Justin Lynch
Between Counterinsurgency and Genocide
Richard Outzen
The Real Myths of Counterinsurgency
David H. Ucko
Lessons in Counterinsurgency from the Anglo-Irish War
John Collins
Video Podcast: Counterinsurgency in Crisis
David H. Ucko
,
Robert Egnell
,
Frank Hoffman
, and
David Maxwell
Keep Fighting: Why the Counterinsurgency Debate Must Go On
Mark Stout
Clear-hold-build-fail? Rethinking Local-Level Counterinsurgency
David H. Ucko
Counterinsurgency was never about Afghanistan
Ryan Evans
Iranian Counterinsurgency
Ryan Evans
Counterinsurgency: Idea vs. Implementation
Jason Fritz
Counterinsurgency is Not the Problem
Jason Fritz
The Wrong Debate: Reflections on Counterinsurgency
Crispin Burke
The Lessons of Sacrifice
Adam A. Scher
The Operational Case Against Israel’s Gaza Campaign
Andy Milburn
Islamic State Containment Is Collapsing in Syria
Kelly Kassis
Open War at the Durand Line: Can Pakistan’s Escalation Compel a Taliban Recalculation?
Amira Jadoon
Gaza and the Logic of High-Intensity Urban Warfare
Danny Orbach
,
Jonathan Boxman
,
Yagil Henkin
, and
Jonathan Braverman
The Velocity Gap Between Pakistan and India
Anil Raman
Is the Age of Drones Really the Age of Poor Maneuver?
Antonio Salinas
and
Jason P. LeVay
Anchoring Intelligence: Ground Truth in an Age of Synthetic Deception
Nicholas Krohley
Decline of Operational Art: The Story of A Strategic China Wargame
Marco Lyons
The Future Role of Clans in Gaza
Yaniv Voller
Ghost Fleet, Ten Years Later: An Interview with P.W. Singer and August Cole
Peter W. Singer
and
August Cole
Russia Is Shrewdly Playing the Long Game in Africa
Hanna Notte
Inside Russia’s Shadow Military Sustaining the War
Mariya Y. Omelicheva
Emerging Terrorist Threats and Trends
Tricia Bacon
,
Nathaniel Powell
,
Aaron Y. Zelin
,
Amira Jadoon
, and
Bruce Hoffman
The 2025 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
WOTR Staff
We Need a Marine Corps, Part III: A Corps Recentered
Ben Connable
We Need a Marine Corps, Part II: A Corps Confounded
Ben Connable
Get Ready for the New Rules of War in the Indo-Pacific
James Kraska
and
Gavin Logan
Flailing State: The Resurgence of al-Shabaab in Somalia
Ashley Jackson
Defeating the Houthis Will Require More Than Killing Their Chief
Ari Heistein
When it Comes to Weaponry, Lethality Is Not Enough
Susan LeVine
The Inevitable Role of Clans in Post-Conflict Stabilization in Gaza
Yaniv Voller
Haiti: A Best-Case Scenario
Haleigh Bartos
,
John Chin
, and
Tyler Ashner
Lessons From Gaza’s Most Vulnerable: Understanding Civilian Protection in Wartime
Austin Knuppe
Train, Harden, Sustain: Maintaining the Army’s Lethality in the Nuclear Shadow
Michael Losacco
A Framework for Foresight: Methods to Leverage the Lessons of History
Joe Donato
History Has No Lessons for You: A Warning for Policymakers
Joseph Stieb
Cutting Army Special Operations Will Erode the Military’s Ability to Influence the Modern Battlefield
Cole Livieratos
Remaking Mistakes in Gaza
Frank Sobchak
Israel’s Gaza Ground Invasion and the Return of “Strategic Depth”
Rob Geist Pinfold
Jihadi Blowback: The Wagner Group’s Hidden Downside
Raphael Parens
Moral Injury, Afghanistan, and the Path Toward Recovery
Katherine Selber
and
Will Selber
Using 1202 Authorities to Counter China’s Maritime Militia
Steve Sacks
Mercenary Shocks: What the War in Ukraine Will Eventually Mean for Africa
Raphael Parens
Recalibrating Special Operations Risk Tolerance for the Future Fight
Spencer Reed
Deterrence Through Doctrine: The Case for a Joint Counter-Landing Doctrine
Dylan Buck
and
Zach Ota
Why Dictators are Afraid of Girls: Rethinking Gender and National Security
Kathleen J. McInnis
,
Benjamin Jensen
, and
Jaron Wharton
The Case for Getting Rid of the National Security Strategy
Justin Logan
and
Benjamin H. Friedman
Ukraine’s Dream Could Be Taiwan’s Nightmare
Michael Spirtas
Not So Fast: Insights from a 1944 War Plan Help Explain Why Invading Taiwan Is a Costly Gamble
Benjamin Jensen
Doctrine for Diplomacy: To Remain Relevant, the U.S. State Department Needs a New Statecraft
Dan Spokojny
An Alternative History of AirLand Battle, Part II
David Johnson
and
Zach Alessi-Friedlander
AI, Autonomy, and the Risk of Nuclear War
James Johnson
Colombia’s New President and the Challenges to the Bilateral Relationship
Andrew Ivey
A More United, Better-Armed Opposition Can Bring Democracy to Myanmar
Ye Myo Hein
and
Lucas Myers
The Sheriff and the Banker? Russia and China in Central Asia
Janko Šćepanović
Too Fragile to Fight: Could the U.S. Military Withstand a War of Attrition?
Conrad Crane
Sweeter Carrots and Harder Sticks: Rethinking U.S. Security Assistance
Jeremy Gwinn
Oft Forgotten But Critical Elements of Ukrainian Resistance
Walter Haynes
Lessons from the First Time Russia Accused the United States of Biowarfare
Conrad Crane
Are European Navies Ready for High-Intensity Warfare?
Pierre Morcos
and
Colin Wall
To Support Democracy in Myanmar, Engage with Ethnic Armed Organizations
Kaitlyn Robinson
The Changing Face of Russian Counter-Irregular Warfare
Benjamin Arbitter
and
Kurt Carlson
The Other Insurgency: Northwest Nigeria’s Worsening Bandit Crisis
James Barnett
and
Murtala Rufai
When the War Ended, My Life as a Veteran Began
Brian Mongeau
The Once and Future Defeat in Afghanistan
Barnett Rubin
Killing Terrorist Leaders Is No Silver Bullet
Colin Clarke
Wanna Fight? Pushing Partners Aside in Afghanistan
Kyle Atwell
and
Paul Bailey
Prosecuting Western and Non-Western Islamic State Fighters
Ayesha Ray
When America’s All-Volunteer Force Loses a War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Road to Damascus Is Paved with Good Intentions
David Adesnik
A Peacetime Army Goes to War
Aaron Edwards
War Is on the Rocks
John Mueller
The Budget (and Fleet) That Might Have Been
Blake Herzinger
Managed Risks, Managed Expectations: How Far Will Targeted Killing Get the United States in Afghanistan?
Bryce Loidolt
The Longest Telegram: A Visionary Blueprint for the Comprehensive Grand Strategy Against China We Need
C. Lee Shea
Counter-Terrorism Hangover or Legal Obligation? The Requirement to Protect Civilians in War
Sahr Muhammedally
Time For A Fully Integrated Dual-Fleet Force Model
Dan Owen
Desert Storm at 30: Aerospace Power and the U.S. Military
David Deptula
What’s in a Name? Reimagining Irregular Warfare Activities for Competition
Kevin Bilms
The Post-Conflict Colombian Military Looks for a Development Role
Andrew Ivey
Missionaries From a Strange Land: Veterans and the Society That Sends Them
Áine Josephine Tyrrell
and
Kori Schake
Can India Transcend Its Two-Front Challenge?
Sushant Singh
No Sure Victory: The Marines New Force Design Plan and the Politics of Implementation
Matthew Fay
and
Michael A. Hunzeker
Korean War Economic Mobilization Is More Relevant to the Current Pandemic than World War II
Douglas Bell
and
Conrad Crane
From Non-Interference to Wolf Warrior: Chinese Foreign Internal Defense
Jimmy Zhang
Affordable, Abundant, and Autonomous: The Future of Ground Warfare
Liam Collins
and
Harrison “Brandon” Morgan
The French Archives and the Coming Fight for Declassification
Terrence Peterson
A Tale of Two Skepticisms: Fighting and Talking with the Taliban During the Obama Years
Barnett Rubin
Mexican Drug Cartels Are Violent — But They’re Not Terrorists
Scott Englund
Leaving Afghanistan: Pulling Out without Pulling the Rug Out
Joe Felter
From Deception to Attrition: AI and the Changing Face of Warfare
Dumitru Minzarari
Turkish Public Diplomacy and Operation Peace Spring
Ozlem Kayhan Pusane
A New “Good Fence?”: Turkey Should Learn from Israel’s Experience in Lebanon
Dylan Maguire
Insurgency, not War, Is China’s Most Likely Course of Action
John Vrolyk
The History that Happened: Setting the Record Straight on the Armenian Genocide
Ryan Gingeras
An “Insider” Memoir That Tells What the Author Learned, Not How Right She Was
Arnold R. Isaacs
An American Resolution on Armenian Genocide Wrangles with History
Edward J. Erickson
The Lost Art of Exiting a War
Adam Wunische
When Are Exit Strategies Viable?
David Kampf
Revisiting Iraq in the Shadow of Syria
Joshua Rovner
Will Artificial Intelligence Imperil Nuclear Deterrence?
Rafael Loss
and
Joseph Johnson
How Marine Security Cooperation Can Translate into Sea Control
Brian Kerg
,
Anthony King
, and
Michael Murray
The Great Duality and the Future of the Army: Does Technology Favor the Offensive or Defensive?
Robert Scales
The Myth of American Military Dominance
Justin Lynch
An Interview with Robert Jervis – Reflections on Political Science, Politics, and Policy
Robert Jervis
and
Francis J. Gavin
On Will and War
Douglas A. Ollivant
The United States Needs an Information Warfare Command: A Historical Examination
Conrad Crane
The Terrible Case for Staying in Syria
Benjamin H. Friedman
and
Justin Logan
Hope as a Method: Maxwell Taylor and America’s Cold War
Gregory Daddis
and
Jesse A. Faugstad
Military Pressure and Body Counts in Afghanistan
Jonathan Schroden
Urban Legend: Is Combat in Cities Really Inevitable?
David Johnson
Sir, Who Am I? An Open Letter to the Incoming Commandant of the Marine Corps
Leo Spaeder
A Life Well Lived: The Warlord’s Legacy
John Nagl
Drivers, Decisions, Dilemmas: Understanding the Kashmir Crisis and its Implications
Sameer Lalwani
and
Emily Tallo
Debunking the Myths of the War in Afghanistan
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Coming to Terms with America’s Undeniable Failure in Afghanistan
Jason Dempsey
Lessons From the Long War: The Role of Information in Counter-Insurgency
Zachary Griffiths
For Landpower, Picking the Right Battles is More and More Essential
Conrad Crane
So the President Wants Out of Afghanistan: What Happens Next?
Jonathan Schroden
The Enduring Legacy of Reagan’s Drug War in Latin America
Michelle Getchell
How Special Ops Can Step It Up
Jonathan Schroden
An Army Caught in the Middle Between Luddites, Luminaries, and the Occasional Looney
David Johnson
Five Years Ago, We Assessed the War in Afghanistan for Congress: How Did We Do?
Jonathan Schroden
What We Owe the Vietnam Veterans Who Stayed
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Ignorance and Professional Military Education: The Case for Operational Engagement
Thang Tran
,
Michael Oliveira
,
Josh Sider
, and
Leo Blanken
Not Yet Openly at War, but Still Mostly at Peace: The Marine Corps’ Roles and Missions in and Around Key Maritime Terrain
Scott Cuomo
,
Noah Spataro
,
Jeff Cummings
, and
Olivia Garard
How the Marines will Help the U.S. Navy and America’s Allies Win the Great Indo-Pacific War of 2025
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
,
Noah Spataro
, and
Jeff Cummings
Tequila and U.S.-Mexican Security Relations
Michael L. Burgoyne
and
Raúl Benítez Manaut
The Sixth Service: What the Reorganization of Special Operations Forces Can Teach Us About Space Force
Alice Hunt Friend
and
Kaitlyn Johnson
The Python Problem: Reflections on the War on Terror, 17 Years Later
David A. Brown
,
Timothy Hoyt
, and
Craig Whiteside
Prisoners of Idlib: Turkey, Russia, America and the Fate of Syria’s Last Opposition Stronghold
Aaron Stein
How the U.S. Military Learned to Learn in World War I: Lessons from the American Expeditionary Forces
Michael Shurkin
Fragile Loyalties: Soviet Russians between Hitler and Stalin
Johannes Due Enstad
Save the U.S. Army’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute: An Open Letter
WOTR Staff
The Roadmap to Nowhere: Manbij, Turkey, and America’s Dilemma in Syria
Aaron Stein
Three Tours, One Unsolvable Riddle: An Airman’s Reflections on Securing the Peace in Afghanistan
Will Selber
War in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Military Logic Behind Assad’s Use of Chemical Weapons
Luke O’Brien
and
Aaron Stein
You’re Imagining Things: Pop Culture, Warfare, and the Real-Life Lessons of ‘Star Wars’
Erin Simpson
A New Blueprint for Competing Below the Threshold: The Joint Concept for Integrated Campaigning
Phillip Lohaus
The Dangerous Rise of Kinetic Diplomacy
Monica Duffy Toft
Warfare as Violent Politics: An Integrated Framework for Analyzing Armed Threats
David H. Ucko
and
Thomas A. Marks
The More Things Change: Explaining Continuity in Defense Strategy
Raphael S. Cohen
America’s Arms Sales Policy: Security Abroad, Not Jobs at Home
Jonathan Caverley
Rock the Casbah: Tales of a Female Bomber
Lincoln Krause
America Has High Expectations for India. Can New Delhi Deliver?
Paul Staniland
The Destabilizing Dangers of U.S. Counterterrorism in the Sahel
Nathaniel Powell
An Army Trying to Shake Itself from Intellectual Slumber, Part II: From 9/11 to Great Power Competition
David Johnson
From Marriage of Convenience to Bitter Divorce: The Unraveling Ties Between Hamas and ISIL’s Sinai Affiliate
Michael Shkolnik
A Familiar Struggle: Connecting Rural Afghans with Their Government
Will Selber
Terrorism Before and During the War on Terror: A Look at the Numbers
Sean Zeigler
and
Meagan Smith
Progress and Peril in North Waziristan
Michael Kugelman
Congress Asked for an Assessment of the War on Al-Qaeda. Here’s What We Told Them
Jonathan Schroden
and
Julia McQuaid
For Raqqa to Heal, Prioritize Demining
Kimberly Metcalf
Time to Step Back from the War on Terror
Erik Goepner
and
Trevor Thrall
NATO’s Expanding Military Exercises Are Sending Risky Mixed Messages
Ralph S. Clem
A Vicious Entanglement, Part IV: If Only the North Vietnamese Had Read Galula
Jon Askonas
A Vicious Entanglement, Part III: The Asymmetries of Vietnam
Jon Askonas
Back on the Playground: Returning to Iraq, Eight Years Later
Scott Cooper
Managing Chaos in an Era of Great Power Competition
Austin Long
,
Linda Robinson
, and
Seth G. Jones
The Heroic Leader and the Better War from Vietnam to Afghanistan
Jon Askonas
Mission Command and Multi-Domain Battle Don’t Mix
Conrad Crane
Long Ignored: The Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons Against Insurgents
Glenn Cross
A Deadly Delusion: Were Syria’s Rebels Ever Going to Defeat the Jihadists?
Sam Heller
Scientist-Warrior Geeks: Turning Knowledge Into Power
Lukasz Kamienski
Home and Forward Commands Should Replace the Geographic Combatant Commands
Wilson VornDick
Iran’s Growing Casualty Count in Yemen
Joshua Koontz
How to Get Away with Mass Murder: Denying Mass Atrocities in Sri Lanka and Syria
Kate Cronin-Furman
No Retreat: The American Legacy in Afghanistan Does Not Have to Be Defeat
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
Echoes of the Past: Syria, Chemical Weapons, and Civilian Targeting
Luke O’Brien
Playing Moneyball: The Scouting Report on Light Attack Aircraft
Joel Bier
Mirages of War: Six Illusions From our Recent Conflicts
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Al-Shayrat Strikes and Escalation Control in Syria
Noel Anderson
Reassessing Obama’s Legacy of Restraint
Paul Miller
“Shoulder-to-Shoulder” No More in Afghanistan?
Matt Dearing
and
Ahmad Waheed
A Vietnam War Reading List, Brought to You by the War Hall
WOTR Staff
Replaced? Security Force Assistance Brigades vs. Special Forces
Tim Ball
The Double-Edged Legacy of Obamawar
Rachel Tecott
The Future Soldier: Alone in a Crowd
Conrad Crane
The Wages of War without Strategy, Part I: Clausewitz, Vietnam, and the Roots of Strategic Confusion
Robert Cassidy
and
Jacqueline Tame
The War on the Rocks 2016 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
This Won’t Look Like Winning: A Sensible Path for Trump’s Syria Policy
Sam Heller
Afghanistan will be the Trump Administration’s First Foreign Policy Crisis
Jonathan Schroden
Waking Up to the Truth About the Sunni Awakening
Nicholas J. Kramer
Phases of War and the Iraq Experience
Kevin Shi
and
Paul Scharre
Five Reasons Washington Should Rethink Selling Warplanes to Nigeria
Matthew Page
War and The Treacheries of Taxonomy
Tim Feist
On Campaign Plan Phasing: Six-Phase or Unconstrained?
David Maxwell
The Democratization of Airpower: The Insurgent and the Drone
T.X. Hammes
Losing the Peace is Still Losing
Paul Scharre
Elusive Victories: How Counterterrorism Campaigns Can Link Back Up with Strategy
Walter Haynes
The Misadventures of Russia and the United States in Syria: Complete Strategy Implosion Edition
Michael Kofman
Note to Futurists: The Maximum Effective Range of a Prediction is 20 Years
Conrad Crane
Unconventional Warfare is Not the Answer to Your Problem
Andrea Filozof
Targeted Killing: Thinking Through the Logic
Rachel Tecott
What Coup-Proofing Will Do to Turkey’s Military: Lessons From Five Countries
Danny Orbach
Charting Boko Haram’s Rapid Decline
Nathaniel Allen
The Post-Coup Purge of Turkey’s Air Force
Mike Benitez
and
Aaron Stein
I Saw the Future of Defense in California, And It’s Coming to a University Near You
Ryan Evans
How Does Jihadism End? Choosing Between Forever War and Nation Building
Paul Miller
This is How Turkey’s Incursion into Syria Could Get Bogged Down
Aaron Stein
West of Suez for the United Arab Emirates
Alex Mello
and
Michael Knights
When Intervention Works: The Instructive Case of Sierra Leone
David H. Ucko
Washington’s Sunni Myth and the Middle East Undone
Cyrus Malik
South Sudan and the Perils of America’s Peacekeeping Policy
David H. Ucko
Washington’s Sunni Myth and the Civil Wars in Syria and Iraq
Cyrus Malik
Churchill and Ireland: The British Bulldog’s Complicated Relationship with the Emerald Isle
Timothy Hoyt
When the Islamic State is Gone, What Comes Next?
Maj. Gen. Eric T. Olson
Germany Takes a Steely Look at the World
Sebastian Bruns
The Doctrine of Military Change: How the US Army Evolves
Luke O’Brien
Lessons from the Winter War: Frozen Grit and Finland’s Fabian Defense
Iskander Rehman
If I Were President…
Tim Kane
For the U.S. Army, It’s Not About the Story
Nadia Schadlow
The Myth of High-Threat Close Air Support
Mike Pietrucha
How Afghanistan Distorted Close Air Support and Why it Matters
Mike Benitez
America in the Looking Glass: All Questions and No Answers in Iraq and Afghanistan
Frank Hoffman
The Biggest Hurdles to the Future Army We Need
Conrad Crane
Civilian Lives and the Fate of Campaigns
Christopher Kolenda
Au Revoir QDR
Shawn Brimley
and
Loren DeJonge Schulman
The Price of Admission: Understanding the Value of Stealth
Josh Wiitala
What Next for the Army? In Defense of Proponency by Componency
Michael N. Clancy
and
Zac Delwiche
Revisiting Train-and-Equip in Syria to Clear the Manbij Pocket
Andrea Taylor
and
Aaron Stein
Killing the Emir: What We Know About the Strike that Killed Mansour and What It Says About Pakistan and the Taliban
Sameer Lalwani
Why Unloading Wide Area Security Operations on the Reserve Component Will Not Work
James King
Knock-on-the-Roof: The U.S. Air Force’s New Tactic
Elad Popovich
Reimagining and Modernizing U.S. Airborne Forces for the 21st Century
David Johnson
and
John Gordon IV
Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Is a National Security Threat
Radha Iyengar
Shrinking the Tactical Civilian–Military Divide
Kenny Sholes
Don’t Let the Tyranny of Jointness Rule the Indo-Pacific
Steven Wills
The Syrian Civil War and the End of Turkey’s Liberal Dream
Selim Koru
Radically Rethinking NATO and the Future of European Security
Job C. Henning
and
Douglas A. Ollivant
Kurdish Militants and Turkey’s New Urban Insurgency
Aaron Stein
The Weight of the Punch: British Ambition and Power
Patrick Porter
This is your Jihad on Drugs
Paul Kan
Treating the Islamic State as a State
Mike Pietrucha
Setting the Stage for the Future of the Army
Rickey E. Smith
7 Issues the Future of the Army Commission Should Have Spent More Time On
Conrad Crane
The Moral Hazard of the Fight Against the Islamic State in Iraq
Craig Whiteside
Five Costs of Military Innovation
Lena Andrews
and
Julia Macdonald
Just Following Orders: Leadership Lessons from Argentina’s “Dirty War”
Jared Wilhelm
Carnage and Connectivity: How Our Pursuit of Fun Wars Brought the Wars Home
David Betz
Ignoring the Army’s Recent Past Will Not Help it Win Future Wars
Andrew Hill
There is Still Hope for the U.S. Relationship with Pakistan
Lisa Curtis
From the First Gulf War to Islamic State: How America Was Seduced by the “Easy War”
Sebastian J. Bae
The Gulf War’s Anniversary: Reflections on 25 Years of U.S. Military Involvement in the Middle East
Jeffrey D. McCausland
Southern France’s Bloody Past: Six Lessons from a Forgotten Crusade
Iskander Rehman
Wars of Ideas: From the Taliban to the Islamic State
Maj. Gen. Eric T. Olson
The Seven Deadly Sins of Russia Analysis
Michael Kofman
Ash Carter: The Interview
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
and
Ryan Evans
The Myth of the $43-Million Gas Station in Afghanistan
Jeff Goodson
The SOCOM Commander’s Reading List
WOTR Staff
Armstrong, Iyengar, and Schadlow Join the WOTR Editorial Family
Ryan Evans
The Next Task Force Smith: The Danger of Arbitrary Headquarters Reductions
Conrad Crane
and
John Bonin
Nobody Expects the Islamic State
Craig Whiteside
Why is America Tactically Terrific but Strategically Slipshod?
Keith Nightingale
We Need What Women Bring to the Fight
Kyleanne Hunter
Extreme Makeover, Jihadist Edition: Al-Qaeda’s Rebranding Campaign
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
and
Nathaniel Barr
Scholars Help Policymakers Know Their Tools
Dan Reiter
The Inter-Service Wars Are Looking Like Calvinball
James Joyner
Why the New Syrian Army Failed: Washington and Unconventional Warfare
David Maxwell
Yes, Unmanned Combat Aircraft are the Future
Paul Scharre
What the Army needs to do to Win
Michael Jacobson
The Islamic State Comes to Russia?
Elena Pokalova
The Ghosts of Srebrenica: Protecting Civilians in Armed Conflict
Butch Bracknell
Organizational Friction and the Team of Teams Approach in Afghanistan
Todd Greentree
So You Want to Be an Indian Armed Forces Expert?
Shashank Joshi
Bad Guys Know What Works: Asymmetric Warfare and the Third Offset
Benjamin Locks
The Role of the U.S. Army in Asia
Thomas Bickford
and
Albert Willner
Kill Ibrahim? The Pros and Cons of Targeting ISIL’s Leadership
Benjamin Runkle
“Just the Facts” on Afghanistan Doesn’t Tell the Story
George Vlachonikolis
Focusing Like a Laser Beam on Directed Energy
Jason Ellis
Groundhog Day in U.S.-Pakistan Relations
C. Christine Fair
America Did Hybrid Warfare Too
Todd Greentree
Through a Broken Window Darkly: A False Vision of Foreign Policy
Peter Munson
A Better Afghan Strategy: Lose the Timeline
Jason Campbell
The Bush Wars: Ellis on America Fighting in the Philippines
Brett Friedman
Means Matter: Competent Ground Forces and the Fight Against ISIL
David Johnson
The Seductiveness of Special Ops?
Michael Noonan
Reading Galula in Afghanistan
John Ford
The Strategy of Savagery: Explaining the Islamic State
David Martin Jones
and
M.L.R. Smith
Nigerian President to U.S. Government: Send Silver Bullets
Alice Hunt Friend
Dr. Dave’s Hypothetical Institute for the Advanced Study of Stupid Shit
David Betz
A New and Necessary Acronym for NATO
John R. Deni
An Admiral in the Storm: Stavridis on Leadership and Civility
Ryan Evans
Besting Boko Haram
Alice Hunt Friend
Counterbureacracy and Lawfare: The Question of Torture in the War on Terror
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
The War on the Rocks 2014 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
The U.S. needs a more tailored & discriminate deterrence regime
Jerry Meyerle
(W)Archives: World War I and the “Lesser Included Threat”
Mark Stout
The British War Movie America Needs
T.S. Allen
Don’t Exclude Women from Combat Units Because of Cohesion
Robert Egnell
Special Warfare: The Missing Middle in U.S. Coercive Options
Dan Madden
,
Dick Hoffmann
,
Michael W. Johnson
,
Fred T. Krawchuk
,
John E. Peters
,
Linda Robinson
, and
Abby Doll
The Cold War Offset Strategy: Origins and Relevance
Robert Tomes
War, Interrupted, Part I: The Roots of the Jihadist Resurgence in Iraq
Craig Whiteside
Finding Strategic Man
Daniel Steed
Iraq, Syria, and the Islamic State: A Matter of Control
Adam Elkus
and
Nick Prime
No, containing ISIL is not “good enough”
Brad Taylor
The Anti-ISIL strategy: Let’s whack another mole and hope it’s the last
Robert Egnell
ISIL Is Contained And That Should Be Good Enough
Christopher Bolan
ISIL: Does the US understand the kind of war it is fighting?
Jonathan Lord
Don’t Focus on Civilian Casualties
Robert Goldich
Carry On Empathizing: The ISIS Crisis and Western Political Thought
David Martin Jones
and
M.L.R. Smith
Observations on the Long War
Conrad Crane
Obama Shouldn’t Lose His Cool Over the Islamic State
Craig Whiteside
Stopping a New Class of Militants
Jack Miller
Bringing it all back home: The roots of militarized policing
William Rosenau
The Great War: Myths about Myths
John T. Kuehn
Best Warrior Memoirs
WOTR Staff
Afghanistan is not the next Iraq
Michael Kugelman
Pakistan: Did the Right Enemy Know Where Bin Laden Was?
C. Christine Fair
Strategy: Does the Center of Gravity Have Value?
John Haines
Iraq and Longing for Vietnam
Gregory Daddis
Judging Jim Gant: Violence and Legitimacy in Afghanistan
Isaac Baruffi
Planning for the Last Peace?
BJ Armstrong
Inside the Collapse of the Iraqi Army’s 2nd Division
Yasir Abbas
and
Dan Trombly
Iraq and the City of Man
Peter Munson
Hacking Defense: Changing How DoD Innovates
Adam Jay Harrison
and
Stephen Rodriguez
Johnnie Red in Helmand
Ryan Evans
Less than 10K in the Graveyard of Empires
Thomas Lynch
Ukraine: Russia’s Reactionaries Have a Plan
Jack Mulcaire
Iraq and the Fall of Saigon
Robert Killebrew
Understanding the Marine Corps’ Special Operators
Billy Birdzell
Photographs of the Dead in War
Marc Tyrrell
Intelligence at the End of Empire
Mark Stout
American Amnesia In The Afghan War
Jacob Rozich
An Incompetent War: Britain in Helmand
George Vlachonikolis
The Trouble with Turkey’s Drones
Aaron Stein
“Small is Beautiful”: El Salvador’s Lessons and Non-Lessons for the Indirect Approach
David H. Ucko
5 Questions with Dave Dilegge on Small Wars and COIN Cocktails
Ryan Evans
Afghanistan Needs the Terps to Stay
Ryan Evans
Afghanistan and the Colonel Kurtz Effect
Kathleen J. McInnis
Democracy in Iraq: The American Military’s Kobayashi Maru
Stanley J. Wiechnik
Gardening in a “Barren” Officer Corps
BJ Armstrong
Introducing The Art of War
Kathleen J. McInnis
Taking a Spoon to a Gunfight
David Maxwell
PODCAST: Bourbon with a splash of counter-insurgency
Ryan Evans
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Douglas A. Ollivant
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David H. Ucko
Russian Aggression is a Predictable Result of Bad Western Policy
Jeremy Kotkin
General Dempsey’s Priorities
Ryan Evans
What Does “Small Footprint” Really Mean?
Jonathan Schroden
The Pernicious Effects of Uncertainty in Afghanistan
Jason Campbell
Let’s Slow Roll Any Moves Toward Crimean War II
Mark Safranski
Winning the Third War in Pakistan
Jason Turse
The Civil-Military Bridge, Part 1: Simplification and Shorthand Abstractions
ML Cavanaugh
Conservative Internationalism in American Foreign Policy
Ionut Popescu
A Professional to his Fingertips
Robert Goldich
Learning Large Lessons from Small Wars
Frank Hoffman
No COIN for You? The Most Stagnant Debate in Strategic Studies
Brett Friedman
Enable the Warrior-Diplomat
Karl Kadon
Front Row Seat: Watching COIN Fail in Afghanistan
Evan Munsing
Failure to Learn: Reflections on a Career in the Post-Vietnam Army
David Johnson
Gates: A Realist in an Idealist World
Sean Kay
The Odd Sheikh Out: A Complex Problem
Adam Elkus
Five Questions with Steven Metz on U.S. Landpower
John Amble
Odierno’s Reading List
Lauren Katzenberg
Rosy Assumptions: U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan Post-2014
Ryan Evans
The Army Needs a Better Argument
Kori Schake
General Kayani and U.S.-Pakistani Relations, 2007-2013
Thomas Lynch
Getting the Asia Pivot Right
Sean Kay
General Kayani’s Legacy: Trying to Get Pakistan’s House in Order
Stephen Tankel
Threats and the Words We Use: A Thought Experiment
David Maxwell
Tuppence for your COIN Thoughts
Frank Hoffman
The Hudson Center for American Sea Power: An Interview with Bryan McGrath
Ryan Evans
5 Reasons We Don’t Have Good Strategic Thought about Cyber
Mark Stout
Flipping the COIN
Thomas Gibbons-Neff
This is How We’ll Defeat Al-Qaeda
John Amble
The Pentagon is Not Adapting
Robert Haddick
Keeping Score in the War on al Qaeda
Stephen Tankel
How To Improve U.S. National Security Strategies
John Collins
Jaw-Jaw and War-War in Pakistan
Stephen Tankel
Blowtorch Bob: An Instrument of the Cold War State
William Rosenau
The Warlord on Special Operations Forces
John Collins
A Look in the Mirror
Frank Hoffman
On Cats and Coalitions
Kathleen J. McInnis
Preparing to handle Syria’s Chemical Weapons
Al Mauroni
The Doctor and the Anthropologist
Thomas Rid
Unconventional Warfare Does Not Belong to Special Forces
David Maxwell
Primer on Losing
Frank Hoffman
Let Strategy Drive Procurement
T.X. Hammes
Talking to the Taliban? Hold on a second…
Ryan Evans
Commitment in Afghanistan’s Darkest District: “Everybody knows about 2014”
Karl Kadon
On Rue’s Modernization and Readiness
Frank Hoffman
The 1980 Coup and a Slow Transition: The Real Turkish Model for Egypt?
Ryan Evans
Contrasting Clausewitz and Contemporary Conflict
Frank Hoffman
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